Our Lady of Angels Association

by Michael January 9, 2013

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; worship the Lord with cries of gladness;
come before him with joyful song.
Know that the Lord is God, our maker to whom we belong,
whose people we are, God’s well-tended flock.
Enter the temple gates with praise, its courts with thanksgiving.
Give thanks to God, bless his name; good indeed is the Lord,
whose love endures forever, whose faithfulness lasts through every age.

Lord, remember David and all his anxious care; How he swore an oath to the Lord, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: “I will not enter the house where I live, nor lie on the couch where I sleep; I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest, Till I find a home for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.” We have heard of it in Ephrathah; we have found it in the fields of Jaar. Let us enter God’s dwelling; let us worship at God’s footstool. Arise, Lord, come to your resting place, you and your majestic ark. Your priests will be clothed with justice; your faithful will shout for joy. For the sake of David your servant, do not reject your anointed.

Psalm 132: 1-10

If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:1-4

Whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection form the dead.

Philippians 3:7-11

Much have they oppressed me from my youth, now let Israel say. Much have they oppressed me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed. Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows. But the just Lord set me free from the ropes of the yoke of the wicked. May they be scattered in disgrace, all who hate Zion. May they be like the grass on the rooftops withered in early growth, never to fill the reaper’s hands, nor the arms of the binders of sheaves, with none passing by to call out: “The blessings of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!”

Psalm 129

Lord, hear my prayer; in your faithfulness listen to my pleading; answer me in your justice. Do not enter into judgment with your servant; before you no living being can be just. The enemy has pursued me; they have crushed my life to the ground. They have left me in darkness like those long dead. My spirit is faint within me; my heart is dismayed. I remember the days of old; I ponder all your deeds; the works of your hands I recall. I stretch out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.

Psalm 143: 1-6

In you, Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your justice rescue and deliver me; listen to me and save me! Be my rock and refuge, my secure stronghold; for you are my rock and fortress. My God, rescue me from the power of the wicked, from the clutches of the violent. You are my hope, Lord; my trust, God, from my youth. On you I depend since birth; from my mother’s womb you are my strength; my hope in you never wavers.

Psalm 71:1-6

How I love your teaching, Lord! I study it all day long. Your command makes me wiser than my foes, for it is always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, because I ponder your decrees. I have more insight than my elders, because I observe your precepts. I keep my steps from every evil path, that I may obey your word. From your edicts I do not turn, for you have taught them to me. How sweet to my tongue is your promise, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I gain insight; therefore I hate all false ways.

Psalm 119 continued – verses 97-104

Hear my voice, Lord, when I call; have mercy on me and answer me. “Come,” says my heart, “seek God’s face;” your face, Lord, do I seek. Do not hide your face from me; do not repel your servant in anger. You are my help; do not cast me off; do not forsake me, God my Savior! Even if my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me in.

Psalm 27 continued – verses 7-10

Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself and enemy of God. Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy?” But he bestows a greater grace; therefore it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:4-6

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another.

Galatians 5:19-21